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从强度涨落观测引力透镜的时间延迟:相干函数

Observations of Time Delays in Gravitational Lenses from Intensity Fluctuations: The Coherence Function

Ermanno F. Borra

摘要:

测量望远镜二次探测器输出电流波动的频谱,可以用来发现未分辨的天文引力透镜,并确定其图像分量之间的时间延迟。这些时间延迟可用于天文学研究。光源的空间相关系数是一个重要的参数,它量化了在强度起伏的光谱调制中由光源的扩展性引起的对比度损失。这项工作表明,相关系数不一定要在观测频率下进行评估,而是必须在波动频谱的低得多的拍频下进行评估。这开辟了一个强大的新技术,以找到未解决的引力透镜和研究透镜事件和来源。

英文摘要:

Measurements of the spectrum of the fluctuations of the output current of the quadratic detector of a telescope can be used to find unresolved astronomical gravitational lenses and determine time delays between their image components. These time delays can be used for astronomical studies. The spatial correlation coefficient of a source is an important parameter that quantifies the loss of contrast, caused by the extendedness of the source, in the spectral modulation of the intensity fluctuations. This work shows that the correlation coefficient must not be evaluated at the frequency of observation, but must instead be evaluated at the much lower beat frequencies of the spectrum of the fluctuations. This opens up a powerful novel technique to find unresolved gravitational lenses and to study the lensing event and the source.

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